CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4730, 5 March 1884, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Seuteb's Telegbams

London, March 4.

The Government has offered a reward of £2000 for the arrest of the perpetrators of the recent attempts to wreck various metropolitan railway termini by dynamite.

In the House of Commons last night Mr Gladstone, replying to questions, stated that General Graham had been ordered to relieve Tokar, and added that he had already successfully effected the movement. The Premier further declared that the maintenance of the security of the Suakim was essential both for peace and humanity, but that the town would be abandoned when the obligation of England in connection with the Soudan had been fulfilled. Government did not propose to undertake the occupation of the Soudan by British troops, and would not sanction any distant expedition into the interior.

The Marquis of Hartington, in answer to a question, admitted that authority had been granted for the despatch of a British contingent to assist on the Nubian frontier if necessary.

The Franchise Bill was read a first time last night.

[Specials to the Pbess Association]

Lokdon, March 2,

An accidental explosion has occurred on board the Aberdeen, bound for Adelaide. The captain and several of the crew were injured, and the vessel has returned to Gravesend. A later telegram says the pilot has died, and the captain is in a precariouß condition. Mr Wm. P. Marriott, M.P. for Brighton, who resigned his seat after supporting Sir Stafford Northcole's vote of censure in regard to Egyptian affairs, has been re-elected in the Tory interest by a majority of 1400. Latest reports say that fifteen hundred rebels were killed in the late engagement in the Soudan, and that a force of two thousand irregulars from Khartoum has marched to meet the advancing rebels. The Times complains that General Gra* ham directed the retreat (?; from Souakim.